it’s prom time!
Found this over at MeFi… A 20-something-year-old dude (24, to be exact, according to his friendster profile) goes to the Prom with a 17-year old high school girl — all for the sake of journalism. It’s a good read.. Man.. she was just barely born in the Reagan-era. Boy do I feel old.
My favorite bit of the story:
“In their formalwear the girls look much older than they are; they remind me, I can’t help but note, of the maniacally tweezed women who populate the type of bars I stridently avoid. The guys, meanwhile, look even younger and goofier than usual in their tuxes: gawky, a little helpless even, as if they’d raided the closet of some extinct species of older man who roamed the earth in 1987, before mysteriously vanishing.”
